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I have no doubt you can do it! With the determination to obtain the weights you have achieved you'll be able to get to whatever you point you want to make your 50's the best yet.

Oh, I found a cool little post today about weightlifting and how taxing it really is on the body of these guys. One of the athletes of Muscle Drive USA teaches our Olympic Lifting classes at my CrossFit gym, so this is a really cool article ...

"No citizen has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training.... What a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable."
-Socrates

"No citizen has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training.... What a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable."
-Socrates

A couple things I have noticed, is that I am not getting low enough on my jerks and my back foot is not extended. I am also catching the bar too high after the clean, need to work on forcing my body under the bar more with my arms so I can handle heavier weights.

*This morning was pretty much a wash minus the snatch pulls. My hands are just destroyed for some reason right now and I cannot get a very good grip on anything. It will still good to be there and get the work in.

On a high note I watched one of my training partners PR on her deadlift this morning. She hit a 330 lb deadlift which is a 15 lb PR for her, talk about beastly.

"No citizen has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training.... What a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable."
-Socrates

Thanks guys! Steve, I would say she is in the 140's somewhere, she carries it well too.

2.13 PM

Deadlift (beltless)
225 x5
315 x3
405 x3
475 x1
495 x1 (PR)
^Beltless PR and I still had more in me, the last time I pulled close to this without a belt was before my injury two years ago, feeling great right now.

Bench Press
7 x 3 @ 205 with 60 seconds of jumping rope in between each set

Pullup work

*My bench is weak right now, I am going to start hitting chest at least once a week since I am not getting much chest work done in the WOD's so once a week I'll hit it in some form just to keep my strength up there.

"No citizen has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training.... What a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable."
-Socrates

"No citizen has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training.... What a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable."
-Socrates